Campaign To Recall Hsinchu Mayor's Ann Kao Fails First Test
A campaign to recall Hsinchu's suspended mayor Ann Kao has failed to gain the target number of signatures in a first-round petition.
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00:00A campaign to recall a suspended city mayor is underway.
00:05But the first phase of the effort to remove Anne Gall from office failed to gain the 3,500
00:11signatures needed.
00:13Campaigners still have other chances to collect names, with the final target more than 350,000
00:18signatures.
00:19This week, Gall was sentenced to 10 months in prison for falsely accusing a U.S.-based
00:25academic of defamation.
00:27She was also recently convicted of corruption in a case involving misuse of public funds
00:33while she was a legislator.
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